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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1894.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 351..
The following are published.
By Command,
J. H. STEWArt Lockhart, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th September, 1894.
Government of Japan.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 658, JAPAN.
SETOUCHI. HIROSHIMA WAN.
(1725.) EXISTENCE OF A SUNKEN ROCK OFF KONASHAMI JIMA.
According to the Hydrographic Office survey (1894), a sunken rock, with 9 fathoms on it at low water, exists between Onashami-jima and Konashami-jima, 63 cables distant from Yeuma-baua the west extreme of the former island. Its position is as follows:---
Angle subtended by Tsukune-jima and the centre of Ando-jima (34 feet high) lying
eastward of Onashami-jimi..
90°
Angle subtended by Ando-jima and Yenma-bana, west extreme of Onashami-jima...105° This Notice affects the following Naval chart:—No. 50.
No. 659.
JAPAN.
KIUSHU. NORTH COAST.
(1728.) TSUSHIMA. AJIRO WAN-EXISTENCE OF SUNKEN ROCKS.
According to the report of Lieutenant M. Nakamura I. N., he has seen the several sunken rocks not indicated on charts, scattering about 2 cables north-eastward of Tosaki, but time did not permit close examination.
This Notice affects the following Naval charts :-Nos. 64, 227, 143, 21.
Hydrographic Office, Tokyo, Japan, 23 August, 1894.
Captain K. KIMOTSUKI 1.N.
Hydrographer.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(The bearings are Magnetic, and those concerning the visibility of lights are given from seaward.)
No. 665. JAPAN.
KIUSHU WEST COAST.
(1740) APPROACHES TO NAGASAKI KOU-CHANNELS PROHIBITED FROM PASSING. As both Onaka Seto (Oki channel) and a chanuel (South channel) between Koyaki-jima and the main, have been filled up with dangerous obstacles for defence, every vessel is prohibited from passing the above-mentioned channels.
This Notice affects the following Naval charts :-Nos. 108, 187, 143.
By Order of Vice Admiral S. Kabayama.
No. 666. JAPAN.
HONSHU SOUTH COAST.
(1741) TOKYO GULF-BUOYS AND LIGHT SHOWING A BOUNDARY OF MINE FIELD. Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 661 of 1894, the following two buoys and a red light have been situated to show the boundary of the submarine mine field in Tokyo Gulf.
A black and white horizontal stripes conical iron buoy surmounted by a spherical cage (14 feet 7 inches high) has been moored in 28 fathoms at the intersection of a line drawn from Tado-zaki passing north end of Sarushima with a line from Hashirimidzu poiut to Honmoku buoy.
A red conical iron buoy surmounted by a spherical cage (12 feet high) has been moored in 28 fathoms at the intersection of a line drawn from Koshiba-zaki to Hitomi-yama (Kisaradzu) with a line drawn from Hashirimidzu point to Honmoku buoy.
A lighthouse has been erected on Hashirimidzu point (its position Lat. 35° 16′ 3′′ N.; Long. 139° 43′ 55′′ E. by the Naval chart No. 90).
The light is a fixed red light, and illuminates an arc of 5° between the bearings S. 12° E. and S. 17° E. covering the westward of a line from Hashirimidzu point to Honmoku buoy,
The light is shown at an elevation of 91 feet above the sea, and should be visible, in clear weather, from a distance of 6 miles.
The lighthouse, 15 feet high, is a wooden tower square in shape, and painted white. The light will be shown on and after August 21, 1894.
This Notice affects the following Naval charts :-)
Hydrographic Office, Tokyo, Japan, 25 August, 1894.
-Nos. 90, 111, 216, 95.
Captain K. KIMOTSUKI IN.
Hydrographer.